days of the week visualized
I associate a colour to every day of the week. Also, every day is an island in my mind and has a shape. Monday – Royal Blue – Average sized, round, island shape. Tuesday – Grey – Long thin island shape, kind of like Italy’s shape. Wednesday – Yellow – Huge Round island Thursday – Black – Smaller than Monday, round island with very jagged edges. Friday – Reddish Orange – Small almost square shaped island. Saturday – Golden – Big, round, smooth shape. Sunday – Navy Blue – Has a width, double the width of Tuesday but has no beginning or end. Not a complete shape.
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You might be synaesthetic, which is pretty awesome. Here’s the wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
that does sound awesome
I was JUST about to say you might have synesthesia, which is really cool. My psychology professor says some 1% of the population has it. It’s so insanely incredible; I’m jealous if you do. There’s this video of a man who has synesthesia, and he relates food with color. You should watch it and see if it sounds like you.
Some people who are able to do incredible computations quickly and in their head (example: 12759×745251=) see numbers as varying shapes and colors.
Definitely along the lines of synaesthesia. You have a gift!
That is pretty awesome. Out of curiosity, do you associate daily tasks or appointments with objects or locations on the islands? This ability could afford you with an incredible memory.
Neat idea Zack. I’ll have to give it a go might just help my memory and recall. Unfortunately I’ll have to decide what my islands look like first!
hello. original poster here. it certainly doesn’t feel that special. maybe I should think harder with it. I never really thought of using it for memory recall purposes. I should give it a try. it’d be great if it was synaesthesia though!
It’s not so special or ‘cool’ to be synaesthesic. It does help with your memory, but your association skills need to get better in order to do that. OP: Try some linking methods and make some mindmaps and you’ll be on your way. I’m not synaesthesic, but I do have a very visual style of remembering and a vivid recollection-process. Personally, I link everything together automatically. Everyone can learn this, but for me it always came natural. Example: someone’s name I link to a visual aid whether it be an image or event and then place that event around the current image. Let’s say someone says their name is John Perish, I envision how his body is on a toilet (john) and he’s dead (perish). I add layers usually to strengthen the memory. The problem is, I don’t have a good sense of time and structures seem illogical when presented to others. The interesting thing is how fast my association skills have become. I just can’t say everything I’m thinking of otherwise I might seem like a disturbed person.
how’s that working out for ya, karim? i am synaesthetic and i think it rocks!
A LONG post…Sorry. At least no spam, right? For the record, I am not synaesthetic. A few years ago I got tested for a couple of things because I thought I had insomnia and ‘too’ lucid dreams – I got confused. How could I dream and have insomnia at the same time? After a while it was clear that in fact I was sleeping but was dreaming about being awake all night and then get up and do the day till I went to sleep again. Got tested. The guy thought I couldn’t sleep because of the outcome of weird association games. He thought I was synaesthetic and I read up on the subject. It seems there are a lot of people with synaesthesia who aren’t able to process the information well or even find a way to live with it. If you aren’t able to ‘go with the flow’, life can be chaos at that point. Especially if you’re neurotic and don’t want the evil red sixes close to the blue eights and the green ones. The more I read up on it, the more I ‘became’ synaesthetic. I associated colours with numbers, but I knew I wasn’t truly synaesthetic because of the fact that it didn’t come automatically. Associations yes, colours no. My experiences with my own condition: Well somestars, I gotta tell ya…when I was a kid I used to daydream a lot because of this association stuff, but I noticed that my fantasies actually were so real that I didn’t know if something was a dream or a memory of an actual event. For example, I’d actually think I saw a man with wings cause his name was Martin (Martin – Marty – Marty McFly from Back to the Future – Fly – Wings). Another thing is that when I mentally placed something alongside of an actual image, I often treated the image as ‘too’ real. I avoided the strings that attached two lovers with eachother or the grey, rotting breath of a smoker. Now I differentiate between reality and extreme hallucination, but I still often link wrong associations that don’t help further relationships. Say I see a girl with ears like a gremlin and I (ofcourse) see gremlins walk around her, I avoid her. And then what happens when we talk and she’s actually nice and lovely? The gremlins have got to make room for something else, but a lot of times it just piles up. To everyone with a condition: don’t spend your whole life cleaning up. Go with it and create more happiness.
To me, Monday is bluish-white, Tuesday is a light yellow, Wednesday is orange, Thursday is blue-green, Friday is light green, and Saturday and Sunday are bright yellow. I go by the first letter of the word to see what color the word is. That is why Saturday and Sunday are the same color.
re: orginal post
OMG!!!
for me, numbers have colors–0 is transparent, 1 is white, 2 is green, 3 is yellow, 4 is brown, 5 is beige, 6 is pink, 7 is blue, 8 is orange, and 9 is red. The only place I see this is when I conceive of telephone numbers–and the “color of the telephone number” depends on the order of the numbers. Usually the prevalent colors are each second number.
Months have color for me, as well as days of the week. Also, the days are arranged in a certain way and months, the same. The days of the week are a kind of necklace, not perfectly round, tending towards an ellipse. Months are lined up in two columns – January to July, then August heads the next column.
you all should read some books by dr. oliver sacks. he is a genius neurologist and touches on this and other very interesting things about our brains. these are not written in super-scientific terminology so don’t be worried that they are textbooks! you will be fascinated and may see where some of our neuroses come from.
http://www.oliversacks.com/writing.htm
I don’t associate days with shapes, but colours. Like when thinking about next week, yellow is when I’ll be having lunch with my Aunt. And green is when I have a doctor’s appt. Didn’t realize it was so common.
Yep, you’ve got synesthesia, not neurosis.
For me, months and numbers have colors, and days of the week have shapes. They are arranged sort of like a bar graph. Saturday and Sunday are the tallest, Monday through Thursday are the shortest, all the same height, and Friday is somewhere in between the weekdays’ height and the weekend’s.